Facter 4.0.50

Networking fact improvements for AIX. The AIX networking resolver now uses FFI to detect networking interfaces and IPs. Previously, VLANs and secondary IPs were not displayed. FACT-2878

Improved performance for blocking legacy facts. This release improves the performance of blocking legacy facts by implementing a different mechanism. The new mechanism does not allow legacy groups to be overriden by a group with the same name in fact-groups. If you add a legacy group in fact-groups, it is ignored. The new implementation is faster for use cases involving multiple custom facts that depend on core facts. FACT-2917

Facter::Core::Execution does not set status variables in Facter 4. This release reimplements Open3.popen3 to use Process.wait instead of Process.detach. FACT-2934

Facter error message — no implicit conversion of nil into String — when determining processor speed on Linux. Facter now handles processor speed values where log10 is not set (3, 6, 9, 12). FACT-2927

Facter fails "closed" if the facter.conf file is invalid. Previously, Facter failed when an invalid config file was provided. Facter now logs a warning message stating that the parsing of the config file failed and continues retrieving facts with the default options. FACT-2924

Domain on Windows does not prioritise registry. Facter now prioritises information from registry on Windows, instead of network interface domain names. FACT-2923

LinuxMint Tessa not recognized. Previously, the os.release fact was retrieved from the /etc/os-release file, but Facter 3 read other release files based on operating system (OS). Now Facter retrieves os.release from the specific release file for every OS. FACT-2921